PMO Job Trends in the South West

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PMO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 146 154
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +16
Permanent jobs citing PMO 11 36 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.87% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.86% 6.05% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 51
10th Percentile £35,875 £29,750 £36,875
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £47,573
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.41% +0.15%
75th Percentile £52,273 £57,459 £55,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £68,250 £66,750
England median annual salary £60,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.91% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

PMO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 590 595 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.57% 14.32% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 333 262 526
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,650 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £38,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,693 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,140 £82,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £58,920
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.83% +2.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PMO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

PMO job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PMO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PMO

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMO in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PMO in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset -16 4 £82,846 +163.00% 2
Wiltshire +4 3 £41,250 +17.86% 1
Bristol +2 3 £48,500 -3.00% 2
Devon -8 1 £50,000 -
PMO
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) assyst
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Asana
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Police
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Coordinator
2 3 (27.27%) PMO Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Head of IT
3 2 (18.18%) Head of Projects
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior PMO
3 2 (18.18%) Senior PMO Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Junior
4 1 (9.09%) Junior IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Junior IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) PMO Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Supplier Management
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Enablement
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (9.09%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) P3O
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) BMC
2 1 (9.09%) IFS
2 1 (9.09%) Remedy
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow